Andy Fickman

Andy Fickman is an American filmmaker. His credits as a theater director include the premiere of the Reefer Madness! musical, ^[1] the first Los Angeles production of the play Jewtopia , ^[2] and the Los Angeles, Off-Broadway and London productions of Heathers: The Musical .

He made his screen directing debut in 2002 with the teen sex comedy Who's Your Daddy?. The film was released directly to DVD in 2005.

He is formerly the director and producer of Internet Icon on YouTube, as well as the CBS sitcom Kevin Can Wait . He also has a production company entitled Oops Doughnuts Productions. ^[3]

He directed comedy films She's the Man (2006), The Game Plan (2007), Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015) and Playing with Fire (2019). In 2021, he directed the first season of a NASCAR workplace comedy series The Crew on Netflix.

Personal life

Fickman, who originates from Midland, Texas, ^[4] moved with his family to Houston in 1974, and went to Lee High School (Houston, Texas). ^[5] Fickman is a graduate of Texas Tech University ^{[6] [7]} and a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. ^[8] He was raised in Conservative Judaism. ^[9] In 2013, he was honored with the Alumni of the Year award by United Synagogue Youth.^{[ citation needed ]} In 2008, he started Oops Doughnuts Productions with a first look deal at Disney. ^[10]

On October 8, 2016, Fickman married Kristen Elizabeth Gura, aunt of two-term Georgetown Phantoms president Gaby Gura, in Kristen's hometown of Rochester, Minnesota.^{[ citation needed ]}

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Director	Producer	Writer	Notes
2002	Who's Your Daddy?	Yes	No	Yes	Direct-to-video
2006	She's the Man	Yes	No	No
2007	The Game Plan	Yes	No	No
2009	Race to Witch Mountain	Yes	No	No
2010	You Again	Yes	Yes	No
2012	Jewtopia	No	Yes	No
	Parental Guidance	Yes	No	No
2015	Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2	Yes	No	No	Nominated- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director
	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse	No	Yes	No
2019	Playing with Fire	Yes	No	No
2023	One True Loves	Yes	Yes	No
2024	Don't Turn Out the Lights	Yes	Yes	Yes

Production executive

• Funny About Love (1990)
• Another You (1991)
• Hocus Pocus (1993)
• Man of the House (1995)

Associate producer

• Anaconda (1997)

Television

TV movies

Year	Title	Director	Executive Producer
2005	Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical	Yes	Yes
2021	Christmas...Again?!	Yes	No

TV series

Year	Title	Director	Executive Producer	Notes
2007	Aliens in America	Yes	No	1 episode
2011	Hellcats	Yes	No
2012	Internet Icon	No	Yes	9 episodes
2013–2017	Liv and Maddie	Yes	Yes	Directed 32 episodes
2015	Austin & Ally	Yes	No	1 episode
2016	Recovery Road	Yes	No
	The Odd Couple	Yes	No
2016–2018	Kevin Can Wait	Yes	Yes	All episodes
2019	No Good Nick	Yes	No	4 episodes
2021	The Crew	Yes	Yes	All episodes
2024	Wizards Beyond Waverly Place	Yes	Yes	2 episodes

References

1. "Foley, Kathleen. "Stop Laughing--This is Serious." Los Angeles Times 21 July 2000". Archived from the original on 27 April 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-21.
2. "Jewtopia Florida Production". JEWTOPIA. Archived from the original on 2005-05-11. Retrieved 2009-04-23.
3. "Andy Fickman". Variety . 2 October 2013.
4. Temple, Georgia (March 16, 2006). "She's the man". Midland Reporter-Telegram . Archived from the original on February 13, 2019. Retrieved February 13, 2019.
5. Samuels, Jeanne F. (September 20, 2007). "A Winning Team: Andy Fickman Directs "The Game Plan"". Jewish Herald-Voice . Retrieved February 13, 2019.
6. "1981-2008 Outstanding Alumni". Texas Tech University . Retrieved February 13, 2019.
7. "Andy Fickman". Texas Tech University. Archived from the original on March 8, 2012. Retrieved February 17, 2009.
8. Texas Tech University - La Ventana. La Ventana. 1987. p. 353. Retrieved February 13, 2019.
9. Mann, Iris (November 21, 2012). "Holiday films that provoke, (and Some Just for Fun) | Hollywood". Jewish Journal. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
10. Fleming, Michael (2008-09-24). "Disney, Fickman ink first-look deal". Variety. Retrieved 2020-11-29.

External links

• Andy Fickman at IMDb